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Rand returns with a new music track! Blade takes on the Ultimate Avengers, and we talk about that one magazine article... We also review Count Crowley Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter #1 from Dark Horse Comics, Ultimate Universe #1 from Marvel Comics, and Deviant #1 from Image Comics!

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STEPHEN
COUNT CROWLEY MEDIOCRE MIDNIGHT MONSTER HUNTER #1
Writer: David Dastmalchian
Artist: Lukas Ketner
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: November 08, 2023
A dead werewolf would have made Jerri Bartman feel victorious just a few days ago. But this deceased beast was her friend and our beloved monster hunter is shocked and depressed. The return of her predecessor brings no consolation and now there's a ghoulish child-snatcher on the loose in Beloit... Holly Halloween, Count Crowley! Things are really getting batty!
[rating:4/5]

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MATTHEW
ULTIMATE UNIVERSE #1
Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Artist: Stefano Caselli
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $6.99
Release Date: November 1, 2023
THE SPOILS OF VICTORY!
After the worlds-shaking conclusion of ULTIMATE INVASION, a new team of heroes bands together to save the future! From mastermind Jonathan Hickman and superstar artist Stefano Caselli, don't miss out on this foundational issue for the new line of Ultimate Comics!
[rating:3/5]

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THE DEVIANT #1
Writer: James Tynion IV
Artist: Joshua Hixson
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $5.99
Release Date: November 15, 2023
As snow falls over Milwaukee in 1972, a blood-stained Santa Claus commits unimaginable atrocities against young men. Fifty years later, a troubled young writer interviews this so-called "Deviant Killer," who still maintains his innocence from behind bars. And as Christmas approaches once again, the past returns, wielding a sharpened ax. Eisner-winning writer JAMES TYNION IV (W0RLDTR33, THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH) and acclaimed artist JOSHUA HIXSON (The Plot, Children of the Woods) unite for a pitch-black holiday horror story.
Rodrigo - [rating: 3.5/5]
Rand - [rating: 4/5)

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ULTIMATE COMICS AVENGERS: BLADE VS. THE AVENGERS
Writer: Mark Millar
Artist: Steve Dillon
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $19.99
Release Date: January 1, 2011
A black-ops task force, the Avengers do the jobs too dirty for the public-facing Ultimates. And it doesn't get any blacker or dirtier than an organized vampire takeover. The half-vampire known as Blade is used to taking out the undead one at a time, but the various clans have become bolder and more aggressive since coming under the command of a charismatic new leader: a mysterious vampire encased in a suit of salvaged Iron Man armor. With the vampires' new king transforming more and more heroes into super-powered bloodsuckers, Blade soon finds himself at odds with the Avengers. Can the hunter and hunted work together to stem the blood-red tide? Collecting ULTIMATE AVENGERS 3 #1-6.
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A special guest stops by to talk about an upcoming project, plus we wonder what school you would most want to go to. How many variant covers are too many variant covers? And we review Newbury and Hobbes #1, Asgardians of the Galaxy #1, and Tony Millionaire's Sea Monsters Coloring Book. No... really!

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STEPHEN
NEWBURY AND HOBBES #1
Writer: George Mann
Artist: Dan Boultwood
Publisher: Titan Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Writer George Mann brings his steampunk mystery novels to comics for their 10th anniversary, alongside DanBoultwood. Whether dismantling rogue automata, uncovering plots against The Crown, or putting down infestations of zombies - it’s all in a day’s work for Newbury & Hobbes!
[rating:4.5/5]

MATTHEW
ASGARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #1
Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: Matteo Lolli
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: September 5, 2018

Angela, the not-so-beloved half-sister of Thor. The hotheaded Valkyrie – and the human who shares her form, Annabelle Riggs. Skurge the Executioner, freshly returned from Hel. Throg, the mightiest frog of thunder. Kevin Masterson, the boy who took his father’s mace to become the hero Thunderstrike. And the Destroyer, the Asgardian armor built to take down Celestials – its wielder unknown. The events of INFINITY WARS set NEBULA off on a quest to rule the galaxy – wielding an Asgardian weapon even Thor would fear – and it’s up to this team of gods, assassins, frogs and heroes to stop her.
[rating:4/5]

RODRIGO
TONY MILLIONAIRE'S SEA MONSTERS COLORING BOOK
Writer: Tony Millionaire
Artist: Tony Millionaire
Publisher: Archaia
Cover Price: $16.99
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A nautical collection of detailed, fun-to-color, irreverent illustrations from critically-acclaimed cartoonist, Tony Millionaire, featuring some his most beloved misfit characters.

Step aboard and experience the strange and beautiful world of award-winning cartoonist Tony Millionaire and his most beloved characters in this intricate, irreverent, nautical coloring book.

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SCIENCE! (sciencecomicbook.com)
Welcome to Science!, an 80 page middle-grade original graphic novel written by husband and wife team, Jason Inman and Ashley Victoria Robinson, who you've probably seen somewhere on the internet (Collider Heroes, DC All Access, Jawiin). This is their second co-created comic after their debut creator-owned series Jupiter Jet, published in 2017 by Action Lab Comics.

This graphic novel will feature art by illustrator Dez Pittman, colour art by Gehenna: Death Valley creator Becka Kinzie, and letters by Ghost Glyph Studio’s Taylor Esposito, edited by Hope Nicholson (Angel Catbird, Moonshot) and will be published by the multi Eisner-nominated publisher Bedside Press (The Secret Loves of Geek Girls, Gothic Tales of Haunted Love).

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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: We have double the number of reviews for you this week including Asterix and the Chariot Race, Quarry’s War #1, Witchblade #1, Mystic U #1, Detective Comics #969, Santa Clause Private Eye, and COCO!

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NEWS
Are you read for 20 more Marvel movies after Avengers 4?
http://www.slashfilm.com/marvel-cinematic-universe-end/

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STEPHEN
ASTERIX AND THE CHARIOT RACE HC
Writer: Jean-Yves Ferri
Artist: Didler Conrad
Publisher: Orion
Cover Price: $17.99
SOLICITATION: Famous for their extensive travels around the Known World, this time Asterix and Obelix are going to meet the people of the Italian peninsula: the Italics! To Obelix’s delight, the inhabitants of Ancient Italy are not all Romans! Far from it! The Italics want to keep their independence and take a dim view of Julius Caesar and his Legions’ plans for total domination.
[rating:3/5]

MYSTIK U
Writer: Alisa Kwitney
Artist: Michael Norton
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Price: $5.99
Leave the world of the mundane behind and step through the magical doors of Mystik U! After a tragic accident, a young Zatanna Zatara, under the guidance of Rose Psychic, enrolls in a mysterious university that teaches its students how to master their unique brands of magic. Will Zatanna fit in with her new classmates (Enchantress, Sargon the Sorcerer, Faust and more!) and unlock her true potential? Find out in this exciting bimonthly miniseries from novelist Alisa Kwitney (DESTINY) and Mike Norton (Revival, Runaways)!
[rating:3.5/5]

DETECTIVE COMICS #969
Writer: James Tynion IV
Artist: Raul Fernandez, Alvaro Martinez
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
“FALL OF THE BATMEN” part one! Everyone in Batman’s orbit is broken somehow—some more than others. For Clayface, keeping the pieces of his psyche together has been a years-long struggle...and it’s a war he may be about to lose! And as the team tries to pull itself back together, their enemies have learned something from Batman’s newfound spirit of cooperation...and have formed a cabal of their own!
[rating: 2/5]

MATTHEW
QUARRY'S WAR #1
Writer: Max Allan Collins
Artist: Szymon Kudranski
Cover Price: $3.99
Written by renowned comic writer and author of the Quarry Hard Case Crime novels, Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition, Batman, Action Comics Weekly) and illustrated by Szymon Kudranski (Batman: Streets of Gotham, Spider-Man, Spawn)"
[rating: 4/5]

SANTA CLAUS, PRIVATE EYE
Darby Pop Publishing
Writer: Jeremby Bernstein
Artist: Michael Dorman
One day each year, Santa Claus delivers presents to children. The other 364, he moonlights as a down-on-his luck private dick named Nick Santana, working dark streets filled with gangsters, guns, and femme fatales. After all, the nicer they look, the naughtier they can be.
[rating: 5/5]

RODRIGO
COCO
Director: Lee Unkrich
Producer: Darla Anderson
Screenplay: Adrian Molina, Matthew Aldrich
Studio: Pixar Animation Studios
Despite his family's generations-old ban on music, young Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead. After meeting a charming trickster named Héctor, the two new friends embark on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
[rating: 5/5]

WITCHBLADE #1
Writer: Caitlin Kittredge
Artist: Roberta Ingranata
Publisher: Top Cow
"LIFE AFTER," Part One
Gunned down and left for dead on a New York rooftop, Alex Underwood's life should have ended there-but instead, at the moment of death, she became host to the Witchblade, a mystical artifact that grants the woman wielding it extraordinary powers. But the power comes with a heavy cost, and Alex finds herself thrust into the center of an unseen battle raging on the snowy streets of NYC. Demons are real and walking among humans, and every one of them is intent on taking out the Witchblade's newest host before she becomes too strong to kill. But the artifact chose Alex for a reason, and she's not going down without a fight.
[rating:3/5]

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In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, we examine Superboy #98, and Adventure Comics #300 and discover the point where the Legion goes from a plot device to main event. Also, Legion of Super-Heroes writer, Mark Waid stops by to talk about his favorite Legion member.

In the city of Metropolis, in the 30th Century, there exists one of the most amazing clubs of all time! It's members are teen-aged youths, each possessing on special super-powers! The club members have vowed to use their fantastic power to battle crime... This rocket shaped building is the Legion Clubhouse!

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Superboy #98
The Boy with Ultra-Powers!
July 1962
w:Jerry Siegel
a: Curt Swan
A super-powered young man named Ultra-Boy has arrived in Smallville with his guide Marla Latham, for the purpose of trying to learn the secret identity of Superboy. Mingling in with the youth of Smallville, Ultra-Boy attempts to learn Superboy's secret identity, at first asking Superboy's confidant Pete Ross. This cause Pete to worry about accidentally revealing the fact that he knows Superboy's secret identity.

Meanwhile, both Ultra-Boy and Superboy find out that they are really costumed super-heroes when they both scan each other with their x-ray visions and see their costumes under each other. When Pete is trapped in the Smallville bank's vault, Ultra-Boy and Superboy arrive to save him. However, when Superboy's x-ray vision is unable to peer into the workings of the lead based vault door, Ultra-Boy is able to do so because his vision does not have the same limitation.

With Pete Ross freed, Ultra-Boy reveals to Superboy his purpose for trying to learn Superboy's identity: That he's really an alien from the 30th Century, and that his reward for learning Superboy's identity would be membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes. With his mission a success Ultra-Boy returns to the future with Marla and bids farewell to Superboy and Pete. - via DC Wikia

Adventure Comics #300
Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes
September 1962
w: Jerry Siegel
a: John Forte/Al Plastino
When the powers of the Legionnaires go out of control, they summon Superboy to the 30th century to aid them. They discover the cause is a lead masked villain called Urthlo. When Urthlo drives back Superboy with Kryptonite vision, Superboy frees Mon-El from the Phantom Zone long enough for him to defeat Urthlo, who turns out to be a robot sent to the future by the teen-age Lex Luthor. But when the lead antidote (Serum XY-4) created for Mon-El proves to only be temporary, he is returned to the Phantom Zone to save his life. - via DC Wikia

This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: Check out our Giant Size Man-Thing #4 review. Plus, Gamma Gals #1, Super Sons #2, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #13, and All Star Batman #8.

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NEWS
The Tick Gets a New Costume
http://majorspoilers.com/2017/03/12/television-tick-moves-series-serafinowicz-gets-new-costume/

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STEPHEN
ALL STAR BATMAN #8
Writer: Scott Snyder
Artist: Mark Morales
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Price: $4.99
“Hats and Bats”! Underestimate the Mad Hatter at your own peril. Batman takes on one of his most dangerous and deranged foes in a mind-bending tale from the powerhouse creative team of writer Scott Snyder and artist Giuseppe Camuncoli!
[rating:4/5]

MATTHEW
MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS #13
Writer: Kyle Higgins
Artist: Hendry Prasetya
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Cover Price: $3.99
The remaining Power Rangers storm the Command Center in hopes of taking back their home from Rita and her forces. But is it already too late for Zordon and Alpha 5?
[rating:3.5/5]

RODRIGO
GAMMA GALS #1
Publisher: Fanbase Press
Creator: Stefano Terry
Kira, Harriet, and Sue are your average high school students at Brightstone City High School by day, but by night, they are The Gamma Gals, protecting Brightstone City from countless super villains, monsters, and more!

The Gamma Gals is a creator-owned, 4-issue digital comic book series that features three D&D-loving teenage girls who awaken from a gamma-irradiated storm to discover they have extraordinary superpowers. Created, written, and illustrated by newcomer Stefano Terry, The Gamma Gals features a diverse cast of characters that aims to show all readers that everyone can be a superhero.
[rating:3.5/5]

ASHLEY
SUPER SONS #2
Writer: Peter J. Tomasi
Artist: Jorge Jimenez
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
“When I Grow Up” part two! Robin and Superboy—in the clutches of Lex Luthor! The boys are in big trouble! How exactly are they supposed to explain what’s happened to Superman and Batman? Plus, Kid Amazo’s power grows, and this tyrant in the making is about to make life miserable for the Super Sons!
[rating: 5/5]

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DISCUSSION
GIANT SIZE MAN-THING #4
Writer: Steve Gerber
Penciller: Ed Hannigan, Ron Wilson
Cover Artist: Glynis Wein, Frank Brunner
Man-Thing saves a girl who is attacked with fire for trying to expose a corrupt school system.

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